CVE-2014-1831

Description

Phusion Passenger before 4.0.37 allows local users to write to certain files and directories via a symlink attack on (1) control_process.pid or a (2) generation-* file.

Affected packages (2)

• Debian/passengerfrom 0, < 4.0.37-1
• RubyGems/passengerfrom 0, < 4.0.38

References (11)

• ADVISORYhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c7j7-p5jq-26ff
• ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-1831
• ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-1831
• PATCHhttps://github.com/phusion/passenger
• WEBhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/149032.html
• WEBhttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/28/8
• WEBhttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/30/3
• WEBhttps://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=736958
• WEBhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1058992
• WEBhttps://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/34b1087870c2
• WEBhttps://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/passenger/CVE-2014-1831.yml